So much music

So this is and will be an awesome transfer.

Me and Elder B are pretty similar in our interests, namely loving the language and loving/playing music. Haha when we were put together, we were both told basically to use music to contact as much as we could! Haha by our second day we already arranged a super cool musical number for Zone Conference. We're going to see if we can organize a concert/devotional type thing!

Just yesterday we went out in the park with the district and played some music to contact and it was awesome! Our mission president is really big on using our talents and abilities for missionary work, so we're going to try to play as much music as we can to bring some positive attention to the church! I'll let you know how it goes!

As far as being ZL goes, so far nothing has been really different other than that we had to call people and make assignments for Zone Conference, and we had a conference call with President Ivory and all the other Zone Leaders last night. So far I really like being ZL! It's not even more responsibilities than DL, it's just different ones.

We're also going to get to go on exchanges in two of the most beautiful cities in Romania, Brasov and Sibiu, both of which are in Transylvania, and both of which are in our Zone! So I will be able to have at least been in all of the missionary cities that are in Transylvania! So that will be super fun and we'll get to work with some really good missionaries so I'm excited.

We're having Zone Conference tomorrow which will be cool. I've already heard of some of the things that will be brought up but President I loves to just wing it so I'm sure there will be even more cool things that will be brought up haha. But yeah.

Not too much happened this week what with it being transfer week and all, packing, unpacking, cleaning, transfers, etc.

But we did get to have a lesson with a less-active member. He's in a really tough position. He's got some health problems, his wife has some major health problems and is in a hospital for them, and he has no job. He's gotten a lot of help from the church with his medical bills and stuff, but he's kind of also fallen into a state of dependency. He now kind of associates feeling welcome at church with being given monetary support.

He has a lot of faith, and has been in the church for around 20 years, one of the first members in Romania, but he just has had some really sad things happen in his life. And he kind of has this habit of texting the missionaries these really depressing texts... Saying stuff like how much pain he is in, how hungry he is, how his kid has no food. And we can't do anything about it!

The Branch President has kind of said that it's time for the member to do his part. But about a week ago he sent us one of those depressing texts, and I just figured we should do something to show him that we care, so me and Elder K bought a few items of food and dropped them off anonymously at his door. The next day was sunday and although I didn't see him, he came to church and brought someone and also sent us a number of someone to meet with.

And then the other day he texted us asking to meet up so me and Elder B went over to meet with him. He didn't ask for money, but he did talk a lot about his and his wife's health issues, which makes sense. It's just a rough situation. He said that he could get a job, but that his kid needs him at home because he was traumitized by his wife getting schizophrenia.

So yeah. The real problem is that he should be talking with the BP about all of this, but doesn't feel that the BP likes him or has his best interests in mind. So yeah that was that.

And that was about the week!

This is going to be a great transfer!

Hope everyone has a great week!

-Elder DeGraw